A WOMAN who helped to launder £58,000 for her drug dealing partner has been jailed for 22 months.
27-year-old Lauren Padgett, took the cash from Anthony Diprose, also 27, in an attempt to hide the profits from his cocaine dealing activity in Lancaster and Morecambe.
Diprose was the head of an organised crime gang that operated out of Lancaster’s Ryelands estate and used fear and intimidation to stop residents from speaking to the police.
In June he and his associates were jailed for a total of 67 years; with Diprose being given a 16-year sentence for conspiracy to supply cocaine; laundering over £100,000 and fraud by false representation after clocking a Range Rover.
Lauren Padgett, who lived with Diprose in Roeburn Drive, Morecambe, pleaded guilty to money laundering and the fraud involving the Range Rover. Appearing at Preston Crown Court yesterday (Mon) she was jailed for 22 months.
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